Aerobilitys Global Flight Simulator Challenge

[Dumbledor]

Aerobility is a UK registered charity founded in 1993 offering disabled people, without exception, the opportunity to fly an aeroplane.

We are challenging over 100 people to help Aerobility achieve a New Guinness World Record for the longest duration Global simulator flight in our sim at Blackbushe.
We also hope to raise £100,000, ALL of the money raised will fund Aerobility's flying activities with disabled people including the running costs of our own flying simulator over the next 5 years.

Our pilots so far include:
Professional pilots, our supporters and volunteers.

Buzz Aldrin, Apollo Astronaut,
Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Stephen Dalton, RAF
Willie Walsh CEO International Airlines Group
Gerald Howarth, MP
Yves Rossy, Breitling Jet Man
David Hempleman-Adams, Adventure and Explorer
Richard Deakin, Chief Executive, NATS
Andrew Haines, Chief Executive, CAA
Bertrand Piccard, Scientist and Adventurer, Breitling Orbiter record holder
Brian Jones, record-breaking Breitling Orbiter round the world pilot

Start date: 5th October 2012 and finish around 10 days later.
Simulator location: Blackbushe Airport, Camberley, GU17 9LQ

Route:
• 22,000 nautical miles
• 100 pilots
• 10 days
• 200 hours of flying
• West to East - London, Europe, Middle East, Far East and Asia, North America, Greenland, North Atlantic and back to London - taking in famous cities and landmarks along the way.

How to get involved:
For just £500 per flight you can take part in this unique opportunity to participate in this record attempt and help raise money for this fantastic cause. You might also want to ask your company to sponsor you, in return your company will have their logo displayed on the official website + on Aerobilitys sponsorship wall at Blackbushe + they will also be mentioned during Aerobilitys Aviators Ball in November this year.

For further details and to book your leg on this exciting world record attempt please contact Aerobility GFSC 2012 Manager: [email protected]
Aerobilitys website - Aerobility - Homepage (http://aerobility.com/)
Click on the Global Flight Simulator Challenge Logo for more info

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Global Flt Sim website:

Global Flight Simulator Challenge 2012 (http://www.aerobility.com/global-flight-sim/index.html)

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Aerobility are proud to announce that Britain’s most disabled pilot Nathan Doidge will now be joining Buzz Aldrin and several other famous names in Aerobilitys Guinness World Record attempt at Blackbushe.

Global Flight Simulator Challenge 2012 (http://www.aerobility.com/global-flight-sim/index.html)

Aerobility provides 'experience of a lifetime' trial flying lessons for as many terminally ill and disabled people as possible every year, also subsidised flying days for other disability charities such as Help for Heroes, Battle Back' and at-cost instruction and qualification flight training to members.
Aerobility have taught several disabled Afghanistan veterans to fly to PPL standard.

[Dumbledor]

A short clip about this amazing charity:

Aerobility Summary - YouTube

Just over a month to go now now and Aerobility are seeking sponsorship from companies for our Global Flight Simulator Challenge.

For further details
Contact Aerobility GFSC 2012 Manager: [email protected]
Aerobilitys website - Welcome to Aerobility, formerly known as the BDFA (http://www.bdfa.net/)
Challenge website - Global Flight Simulator Challenge 2012 (http://www.aerobility.com/global-flight-sim/index.html)
Click on the Global Flight Simulator Challenge Logo for more info

[Dumbledor]

Aerobility are proud to say that they will be participating in the Paralympic ceremony tomorrow night, Weds 29th Aug.
You might want to watch from about 20.20hrs (UK time) onwards......

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[Dumbledor]

....and here is David Rawlins from Aerobility doing his amazing flypast at the Paralympics opening ceremony. David is a serviceman who was injured in Afghanistan.

BBC News - The Paralympics 'Enlightenment' opening ceremony (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19419251)

[cldrvr]

Give us the exclusive. Where are the pics the media does not have???

[Dumbledor]

Sadly I don't have any exclusive pics but the media have taken some fantastic photo's which all at Aerobility are enjoying today.

[Dumbledor]

Aerobility now have a great selection of photo's of their Paralympics opening ceremony flypast on their website front page...
Aerobility - Homepage (http://aerobility.com/)

[wigglyamp]

Here's the video of the Paralympic flypast - the flying starts at about 4min 50 sec.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd4FgGSY5BY

[cldrvr]

Just out of interest what did you guys have to do to get the exterior lights and fireworks approved, looked pretty good.

[cldrvr]

Dumbledor, your website is unavailable as you guys have hit your bandwidth limit.

[Dumbledor]

Thanks for the info regarding the website cldrvr, I'll pass that on.

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[wigglyamp]

Hi cldvr

Full STC in 13 days - perhaps a record? (Wasn't planned to be like that - late changes in approach to the task from CAA and EASA).
Flight testing (3 trips) with CAA (Paul Mulcahy) on board along with our test pilot, Dan Griffiths and Tim Orchard from Tecnam UK. Ended up with a Vne restriction (very conservatively set) of 130kts and a deployment speed of about 80kts to get best effect of the streaming pyros. Dedicated battery for the pyros and LEDs so no impact on aircraft systems. Stress analysis of wingtip sleeves and pyro mounts. Our design team at Fairoaks did a great job to achieve this with considerable hassle so I was delighted when I saw it work on time at the stadium - not quite what happened on all of the previous test flights. Excellent support from Tim Dews at Airborne Composites who made the wingtip sleeves, Paul Sawney (welder) from Wycombe who created the pyro mounts, Gama Engineering staff for certification and installation, and not forgetting the Aerobility team to pull it all together.

[average-punter]

Fantastic display!!! Had the pleasure of chatting to the pilot a while ago, fantastic chap.

I'm glad to see G-DISA is nice and clean in the video, it took a lot of effort to get it looking good a few months ago ;)

[Dumbledor]

This is what Aerobility's Global Flight Sim Challenge is all about, getting people like Nathan airborne.

Aerobility in Action - Nathan - YouTube

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New Pilots taking part in

Aerobilitys Global Flight Sim Challenge

Rory Underwood former RAF pilot and Rugby star

Dave Rawlins - Partially disabled Afghanistan veteran and Aerobilitys Paralympics Opening Flypast Pilot

Air Commodore Gary Waterfall

Andy Green - Current holder of the World Land speed record

https://www.facebook.com/groups/447384845296006/

https://twitter.com/simonGFSC

Buzz is tweeting about Aerobility now too!!
https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz

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An exciting new group of celebrity Pilots have joined Aerobilitys' Global Flight Simulator Challenge Ebay auction, including Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden, Red Arrow Mike Ling, Joe Pasquale and many more. Place your bid to be their Co-Pilot...
Global Flight Simulator Challenge 2012 (http://www.aerobility.com/global-flight-sim/index.html)

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Just two days to go until the end of Aerobilitys' celebrity auction for the Co-Pilots seat with each of them in the Global Flight Simulator Challenge. You’ll see our celebrities on our blog page and the links to their EBay auctions.
Global Flight Simulator Challenge 2012 (http://www.aerobility.com/global-flight-sim/index.html)

All funds raised will go to buying and running the Simulator for two years which is currently on loan. The sim is invaluable to Aeroblitys students when the weather is too bad for lessons, for free experience rather than the cost of flying, for giving seriously ill people the experience of flying when they aren't able to get airborne and often Aerobility have visits by children with Autism and Aspergers who are terribly nervous of flying, the sim is a great means of introducing them to flying for the first time. One of our latest young visitors after having a flight in the sim and then going up in one of our aircraft described his experience as 'Awesome'!! Hopefully that will be a wonderful memory he will carry with him for life.

[Dumbledor]

Needed.....Amazing pilots who don't mind doing short night flights on the following dates in a simulator for Aerobility's Global Flight Sim Challenge. These sectors have all been sponsored by a company and all the charity asks is that you make a £5 donation. Dates available..06 Oct, 09 Oct, 10 Oct, 12 Oct, 14 Oct This is also a Guinness World Record Challenge. Many Thanks

Global Flight Simulator Challenge 2012 (http://www.aerobility.com/global-flight-sim/index.html)

Please contact [email protected]

[average-punter]

Great opening speeches today and the new aircraft is looking very nice. Shame about the weather :( I flew a test leg the other day and everything seemed to run well. Best of luck!!!

[Dumbledor]

Thanks AP! A day which will go down in history..

So today at 11am Aerobility Charity started their Global Flight Simulator Challenge. For up-to-date details of our pilots and where they are flying in the world 24/7 in the simulator, check out our web page below and click on our blog.

We are also well below what we had hoped to raise to buy the simulator at the moment. This is a wonderful charity teaching disabled people to fly and the simulator helps our students enormously. Please text GFSC12 £5 to 70070 to donate to Aerobility and make a difference today...Thank you so much

Global Flight Simulator Challenge 2012 (http://www.aerobility.com/global-flight-sim/index.html)

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So today is a massive day in our little charitys history as we have the following people flying in our Global Flight Sim Challenge..
Rory Underwood
Buzz Aldrin
Chris Evans
Bruce Dickinson
Look out for us on national Itv news and Sky news all day..
Global Flight Simulator Challenge 2012 (http://www.aerobility.com/global-flight-sim/index.html)

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Rory Underwood, Mike Miller-Smith, Dave Rawlins and Buzz Aldrin talk about Aerobility and the Global Flight Sim Challenge from Blackbushe (live on the day) on radio 4 yesterday... The item starts at about 17.40

BBC iPlayer - You and Yours: Buzz Aldrin is trying to help disabled people learn to fly (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n61sh/You_and_Yours_Buzz_Aldrin_is_trying_to_help_disabled_people_ learn_to_fly/)



Radio 2's Chris Evans also popped in for a flight with Buzz and Bruce Dickinson's Co-Pilot flew in from Canada to fly with him,



Wow! What a day..



If you are able please donate £5 to Aerobility by texting

GFSC12 £5 to 70070

Many thanks

[Dumbledor]

Great new pictures of Buzz and Chris Evans on our Challenge Blog...

Aerobility - Homepage (http://aerobility.com/)

[Dumbledor]

A video of Buzz Aldrins visit to Aerobilitys Global Flight Simulator Challenge yesterday..

VIDEO: Blackbushe abuzz for Aldrin simulator stint - News - gethampshire (http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/news/s/2121935_video_blackbushe_abuzz_for_aldrin_simulator_stint)

[Dumbledor]

So yesterday we broke the world record (yet to be verified by Guinness) and tomorrow our Global Flight Sim Challenge ends with our sim landing back at Blackbushe piloted by Brian Jones at 11.20 am… Brian was one of the Breitling Orbiter pilots.

We still need to raise enough money to buy our Simulator and we would appreciate any donations you are able to make by texting GFSC12 £5 to 70070, Many Thanks

A big thanks to all our fantastic pilots who donated to Aerobility to take part in the challenge, our amazing Celebrities and the Heathrow and Swanwick ATCO’s and many other people that worked as 24hr witness’s for our Guinness challenge. We appreciate your commitment and dedication as we could never have done this without you.

To everyone involved and all you PPRUNERS out there, please don’t hesitate to pop in to Aerobility at Blackbushe for a coffee any time you are passing, we’d love to see you.

Keep up date with the last 12 hours of our challenge by looking at our website..
Aerobility - Homepage (http://aerobility.com/)

[Dumbledor]

£50,000 raised by all our Global Flight Sim Challenge pilots plus a £50,000 donation today. Wow! What a fantastic 10 days this has been...Aerobility now owns it's own Simulator and they also have the money to run it for 5 years. Many Thanks to all our supporters, we couldn't have done it without you..

Message for PPRUNE Towers, many thanks for letting me run this on Bizjets, much appreciated, I'll leave you all in peace now :o)

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Whilst Radio 2's Chris Evans was taking part in the Global Flight Simulator Challenge with Buzz Aldrin he met one of Aerobilitys students and the most disabled NPPL holder pilot in the UK, Nathan Doidge. He decided to make a short film about Nathan and Aerobility which will be aired on the BBC 1 'The One Show' at 7 pm tonight.
If you go to the Global Flight Sim Challenge pages on Aerobilitys website you will see photo's of the filming day..

http://aerobility.com/ (http://aerobility.com/)

We have also now submitted all the details of the Challenge with Guinness for hopefully a new World Record, keep your fingers crossed everyone.

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Around The World in 9 minutes - Aerobility 'Global Flight Simulator Challenge' Timelapse - YouTube

[average-punter]

Great effort, hopefully it will soon be verified. I caught Nathan on the oneshow tonight. Legend. Also was glad to see FM still is looking clean!!! ;)

[Dumbledor]

The aircraft daren't get dirty after you've cleaned and polished them so well :)

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Here's Nathan Doidge on 'The One Show' tonight. It starts at about 3.17 mins but only available on BBC IPlayer for about 7 days.

BBC iPlayer - The One Show: 19/10/2012 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ng5m0/The_One_Show_19_10_2012/)

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Message from Simon Waterfall

Congratulations everyone......

During the night we had official confirmation from Guinness HQ New York. Aerobility is now the proud owner of a new World Record.
9 days, 20min continued flight simulation around the world :-)))
Well done team....

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Aerobility at Blackbushe UK is looking for volunteers…..
Volunteers working with Aerobility provide an extremely valuable resource, and are treated as an integral part of the team.
The important quality’s that the charity needs in volunteers are a willingness to be part of a team and lots of enthusiasm..
The charity is user led and currently only has 2 full time and two part time employees.. We are looking for volunteers who can help out on an ad hoc and regular basis to assist with the following tasks…
The day-to-day running of the School, Assisting disabled qualified pilots, Fundraising, Reception, Marketing, Communications and PR, Instructing (aircraft), Instructing (Simulator), Student Mentoring, Able-bodied Assistance and Heavy Lifting (local people needed for this please), Booking lessons, Data Entry, Computing and IT, Aircraft Cleaning, Assisting at Exhibitions, Odd jobs and Handyman/woman, the list is endless. Please PM me if you would like to help us, Thank you
Aerobility - Homepage (http://aerobility.com/)